The Betrayal Of Krondor

The RiftWar is done. But a fearsome army of trolls and renegade humans, emboldened by the drug of destruction, has risen in strength from the ashes of defeat. There is one, however, who defies the call to battle...

New York Times bestselling fantasist Raymond E. Feist returns to a beleag...

There's a reason Krondor: The Betrayal is such terrible dreck: it was Feist's novelization of an RPG video game developed by Dynamix in the early 90's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betrayal_at_Krondor

The setting (Midkemia) was taken from Feist's earlier novels, but the plot, characters, etc. were made by the game developers. Feist then wrote a novel which followed the plot of the video game and contained all the same characters etc. So that's part of the reason they are so wooden and terrible.

I agree that his first few books were among the best though, and Krondor: The Betrayal is among the worst.